Who Am I?
Hello, I’m Will, and I became a counsellor because I love supporting people to understand themselves as they are, and to live the life they want for themselves.
It was hard to see then, but growing up I didn’t have the tools I needed to understand myself, my emotions, or how to handle many of the issues I encountered in life. I often found myself stuck in patterns, and struggling to understand how I felt or who I was.
Therapy supported me to break historic cycles and patterns in my life. I now live the life I want to lead, rather than the life I felt was given to me.
Below I have listed my accreditations if you wish to know, but alongside my counselling training and practice I have a long history of working with bodies and movement in the arts, which has an impact on how I work. I have also been working within the events world in manual labour and skilled trades like electrics and lighting since I was a teenager, and this has led me to understand how class and our professions can ‘identify’ us, which in my experience can be a barrier to people feeling able to engage in therapy. I also co-run men’s groups in Cambridge.
How do I work?
I work humanistically and creatively.
Essentially this means I believe you are the expert on you, and my job is to understand you and how you experience your life moment to moment.
I believe in working with the whole of you, for example, your thoughts, emotions, your body, your diet, and more. This can help provide insight into how the parts of your day to day life contribute to your moment to moment experience, perspectives, opinions, etc.
I am open minded and creative with how therapy can work. This means I may bring alternative perspectives in, and offer ideas for how we work together. This could involve talking, drawing, getting out into natural settings, paying attention to the way you are building a relationship with me (and therefore, relationships in your life?) and working with the connections between your mind, emotions and body.
Importantly we will work towards you feeling capable to deal with the issues you want to focus on without me, in your own way. Your autonomy is very important in my practice, and everything I offer is an invitation.
My Accreditation & Training
It is important to know the credentials of any mental health professional and I recommend checking this to ensure you are comfortable with their background.
I am a BACP Member, and I trained in a foundation of Humanistic theory at The Gestalt Centre (London, UK) before continuing and completing my BSc in Humanistic Counselling at The Metanoia Institute (London, UK). I currently have a total of four years of training in counselling, and many more hours and days of CPD in various issues surrounding mental health.
As a BACP member, I am continually reading, researching, and training in the latest techniques to support my clients. I also receive clinical supervision as part of my requirements to uphold my and our collective standards of counselling.
As an industry, we have a responsibility to the people we work with to maintain rigorous standards of ethical responsibility. If you have a concern or complaint about me, I welcome you to flag it with me if you feel comfortable to have a discussion with me about it. I welcome any feedback and a conversation.
If you would prefer, you can visit the BACP’s website, my regulator, to let them know.
